See? I can spin a story just like Bill Hobbs. Apparently he thinks there’s something wrong with recognizing the reality that women are already in combat zones and deserve to have that recognized and to be paid appropriately.
Plus, I love how, when backed into a corner, Republicans like Hobbs cannot help but let the fact that they hate men show. Oh, men have to go off to war and die? Well, whoop-dee-doo. But our precious women?! No, don’t take them!
A more cynical person than me would note that there are quite a few people who support the wars we’re in who aren’t fighting them and who might benefit in ways they otherwise could not if all the brave men are overseas, and the women are not.
hey, link straight to the story Hobbs links to instead — that’s where the really icky sentiments are. “dad to eight daughters, uncle sam can have them when you pry them from my cold dead fingers” or something down those lines.
(and no, conscripting men is not really hating them, not in the value structure that… ah, never mind. i’d have to try and explain that whole value structure if we go there, and i’m sure i only share a tiny fraction of it with these nutballs anyway, especially since i do support including women in the draft and in combat positions. besides, it’d all get derailed into a feminism pro/con debate anyway, with all the communications breakdowns that follow whenever i poke my nose into feminism. so, forget i ever said that, okay…)